Klênio Barros is a research fellow at the Centre for Research in Psychology of Music and Music Education (CIPEM), at the School of Education (ESE) of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP). He is an integrated researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology - Centre for Studies in Music and Dance (INET - MD). He has a doctorate in Ethnomusicology, with research funded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes/Brazil) and a master's degree in Music, both from the University of Aveiro. He has an undergraduate and postgraduate degree in Music from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN-Brazil). He is co-author of the book ‘Pedagogical Sonorities' and has published and presented academic papers in the areas of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Popular Music Studies and Music Performance at national and international events. In Brazil, he has worked on social intervention projects in disadvantaged communities through artistic practices and, in the academic field, as a guest lecturer at UFRN. At the moment, in Portugal, he works as a music education teacher in the 1st and 2nd cycles of basic education (Porto). He has experience in submitting research projects for funding and is a member of the ‘Education, Music and Theatre in the Community’ Research Group, supporting various Action Research projects developed at INET-md | CIPEM. He also acts as a scientific reviewer for conferences and colloquia in the field of ethnomusicology and music education at Brazilian universities.